Take a Powder ...

In the course of fixing leaky axle bearings on my '67 Chevy Van, decided to spiff up the differential cover.

So I thought I'd share it here. It's a bit loud, but I like it. And it will probably get fairly dusty fairly quickly ;-).

I wouldn't mind doing the rims in the same general color scheme... But don't know if they'd fit in the oven...

PS-Used a home powder coating setup...

I saw that pic other day,looks good.I have heard of folks doin this at home.Be great for small parts/brackets.

Looks cool. If you're going to do the rims get an oven at a garage sale to use or your significant other is going to kill you.

Real nice, I've been following your other thread for a while cause I'm working on the rear I got from Mountain Kowboy as we speak. Replaced the bearings, all new brake parts, new drums, cleaned it up, some paint and I'll put it in. My axles were in better shape so I didn't need the repair bearings. I have a fancy chrome cover I cleaned up.

Ah'ooooooh!...... Pretty!

I have a buddy who took two ovens, put them together to make more room for bigger parts. He put one oven upside down on top of the other and just used the element from the bottom oven to do parts. It has clam shell door in the front one opens up and the other down.

P.S. veefre the rear end cover looks great

Thanks for the comments.

No worries about the oven. It's a neighbor's cast-away that I fixed up and stuck in the workshop. Although I don't see why, after a good self-cleaning, that it couldn't be safe for baking. Anyway, it seems to work just fine for powder coating.

Next up is probably the handle on the big bolt that attaches the spare to the inner wall of the van. I bead blasted it a while back, but never got around to painting or powder coating it. Probably would look good in yellow, as well...

Only drawback of this powder coating is the amount of time it takes... I wound up putting four coats of yellow on the cover, three coats of red on the bolt heads. Each coat takes about 45 minutes. So I was at it most of the night for just this one part.

Yea that alot of time, but look at what you got for your effort

It looks great. If any of you remember Tom Schaner in Indiana he had a killer shop with a large bead blaster cabinet in its own room and he took a one door refrigerator and an oven and merged them together for large powder coating baking.

you gotta nice rear l.o.l...............

I was at a local bi-weekly old car gathering this afternoon, and saw a few cars that had painted the brake drums (exterior, of course). I'm wondering if this would work with powder coating. Obviously the brakes generate heat and the drum will get hot. The question I have, will it get hot enough to damage a powder coating? I cure the powder here at about 400F.

I guess I could just try coating a front rim and see how it holds up.

nice looking and I love the color!!!

Eastwood has everything you would need

the local harbor freight sells some powder coating supplies around here.... but not the exotic colors..

A friend of mine got the harbor freight kit and it worked well, eastwood has tons a colors

Those are stock Harbor Freight colors. They only stock glossy yellow, red, white, and matte black.

I do like the yellow. I guess I could mix it with some red to create orange.

And I could mix some white with some black to create a semi-gloss gray.

I use the Harbor Freight powder coating system which is pretty good.

You really also need a dedicated electric oven (a cast off kitchen oven will do ok), an air compressor, and a bead blasting cabinet for preparing the parts. For the powder coating you don't need a big compressor, but for the bead blasting you do. My workshop has a built-in compressor, older oil-lubricated Binks. It works ok for the powder but runs out of breath for the bead blasting. So I use a newer 5 HP portable oil-less compressor for both. Makes a terrible racket but has more air capacity.

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